Newham Town Hall at East Ham caught just as the lights are about to turn green after a pedestrian crossing phase.
The town hall is a very impressive building (built in 1917 according to a date stone in one of the walls) and reminds me of the public baths in Camden - perhaps they are by the same architect.
Taken on iphone4 and processed in PSExpress, Iris, and PictureShow
Yr processing brings out the grandeur of the building. Great job on this!!!! Glad u love iris. Go check out the newly launched "photoforge 2" which is touted as a very powerful app.
@kchuk It is a very lovely building - the pale sandstone has beautiful carved details. I think I will research it to see if it is by the same person as the Camden Baths which is a gorgeous building not as big as this one, but built to the same exacting quality.
@pepitaliang Thanks Pepita I had an app buying fest yesterday and also got photoforge they are a bit naughty because you have to buy add ons to get some groovy effects but I could not resist and they are not that much each. I am working on a push bike with attitude at the moment but have not cracked it yet!
@moynes18 Thanks Amber I managed to grab it before the road filled up with traffic I did take some after this but they did not work well I think the diagonal lines of the junction box help draw the eye in and once it is not visible it does not have that pull. I am pleased that you say it has a timeless feel I was hoping that came across,
Hi Lara it was pretty involved I am not sure I will remember it all! I took it on normal setting in iPhone no zoom (no HDR version) it was very dark so I took it into PSExpress and lightened the exposure, put a tad mor contrast in the sharpened it slightly c setting of 5. I either used this or may have started again in Iris and did more exposure tweaking and lightening shadows until I liked the look o was tryning to get those yellow junction lines to pop but it did not play ball for me still i liked it ok I applied some fx filters (can't remember which ones now in the colour section I think, and added a vignete i must have boosted thecsaturation somewhere along the way too probably in PSE. I moved it into picture show added a worn frame and did pseudo HDR in it plus a bit of tilt shift on rectangle setting and aimed to keep
the tower sharp and blur out the cars at either side I think that was about it!! Fairly convoluted for me but I got carried away in iris it was so much fun and the novelty of it swept me along :-) sorry I can't be more exact but hope it gives enough to try and get similar look
Ta Trude it was a bit of a processing marathon (see above) but loads of fun to do and I was pleased with the result a real improvement on a rather dark original :-)
@phil_howcroft Ta Phil, I did wonder about a sepia treatment I am not very brave with b&w but am posting a selective colouring effort today, It would be interesting to know what you think of it
@carrapeta00 Yeah give it a try - I have found that it makes me think about how I might get that picture that one shot cannot grab and I rarely ever process them I just use SOOC shots and the result is often just fine needing no further processing at all - maybe a crop if it will work.
@tashy oh dear I struggle to keep up with everyone's posts, I try my best to visit other people's pages and comment, but it is bit a hit and miss with me! Yes I think I should try and do some b&w and sepia shots and see how I do....
That makes a fav for me ;)
the tower sharp and blur out the cars at either side I think that was about it!! Fairly convoluted for me but I got carried away in iris it was so much fun and the novelty of it swept me along :-) sorry I can't be more exact but hope it gives enough to try and get similar look